Sorry that this has taken ages - I've had loads of exams in the last few weeks and I've still got a few left (though not for another week), and before that I just couldn't muster up the energy for this, not to mention my recent addiction to Vampire Diaries x
Please read and review, and I'm sorry this is so short x It's based on the review from youwannabekate :) I might have another chapter ready soon, though hopefully a longer one (and probably Steve) xx :)
To be honest, Thor doesn't get the looks that he sees his team mates throw Tony now that they know his secret. They look at him oddly, as though there is something dangerous about him, as though he will do something to hurt them if they turn their backs for even a split second. To be honest Thor is offended on Tony's behalf, even as he knows the other's are slowly getting over their instinctual fear in the only way they know.
He can't blame them for it, not with the lives they live. In their lives it is kill or be killed and that doesn't really leave room for doubts or potential threats. They've been taught to eliminate anything that has the potential to harm them, and quickly. So he can understand why they are so wary, and forgive them for it.
But honestly, it takes a lot more than this to faze him. His brother has given birth to a variety of children, of multiple species - a wolf, a horse and a sea serpent. He is much older than the others on this team, and he's seen far more than even they can imagine.
So yes, it takes more than something like this to throw him.
But the rest of his team is younger and even Natasha is innocent to the world he knows, the kind of world that only comes from living too long and seeing too much. It isn't the kind of world that you get by seeing too much suffering or too much death, though it's something that comes along with it. It comes with watching time pass you by, watching everything around you change until you don't even know where the ground you're standing on came from anymore.
They know nothing of what he's experienced, and he doesn't expect them to. But it means they don't have the Sam kind of perspective as him, the thing that tells him that Tony is exactly the same person since they found out his little secret - after it was let out of the bag, as Tony says, not that he really gets the expression.
Tony still gets drunk and passes out on the floor of his workshop. He still ruins press conferences and spends most of his time on the coms in battle trying to beat the number of villains they've taken down. He still makes inappropriate jokes at inconvenient times and when Natasha threatens to take him down he asks if she can use her thighs. Thor still finds him in the kitchen at three in the morning with a bottle of something alcoholic, with lips far too loose for sobriety.
None of this makes him any different, nor unless they make it.
Tony is still the same person. Thor tries to show that every way he knows how, treating Tony exactly the same way as before, and even though it doesn't seem to do much Tony appears to notice. He sends Thor a slight smile sometimes when things get bad, when he gets mad and his eyes flash gold and the rest of the team eye him like a tiger that's been let out of his cage.
So Thor distracts him by asking some inane question about something he doesn't understand, or maybe something he does just to change the subject. And it works. He now knows why people use Facebook (for no reason at all) and why the grass isn't always greener on the other side (it's a philosophy, Bruce had told him, but Tony had gone off on a ramble about chlorophyll, completely ignoring his thoroughly confused audience). He likes Tony to tell him, because the other man does it so well.
Tony is still Tony, and the others just need to get used to that. And if Tony asks why he's so good about it, then Thor has plenty of stories to tell - you don't get to two thousand without something interesting to say.